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Obama and the Return of the Real By Jonathan Schell This article appeared in the February 9, 2009 edition of The Nation. January 22, 2009 (http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090209/schell) I see the work of gods who pile tower-high the pride of those who were nothing, and dash present grandeur down. --Euripides, in The Trojan Women, referring to the fall of Troy The inauguration of Barack Oba...